Welcome to my project. I'm Laurenne. Thank you so much for helping me normalize death and grieving-- making it less taboo and therefore making it easier for people to talk about it and live with it. My mission is to find 100 people who understand what it feels like to lose a parent. I'll be asking those 100 people one simple question every month and compiling the answers so that we can see all together what grieving looks like across a large group. The questions will be short and simple: Do you remember the last conversation? Do you remember where you were when you heard the news?

The answers you give will eventually help so many in dealing with their own grief. I appreciate this tremendously.